HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: DUAL GENERATION APPROACHES

双代方法--同时以父母和儿童为目标--代表着一种有希望的、创新的家庭减贫战略。与俄克拉何马州塔尔萨社区行动计划(CAP Tulsa)合作，我们建议扩大和加强双代教育计划，并在CAP Tulsa的Head Start和EHS(HS和EHS)计划中进行一项关于其对父母及其子女的影响的随机试验。这项名为教育途径计划(EPP)的双代计划，在孩子参加Head Start计划期间为父母提供教育、职业指导和软技能培训。明确的目标是促进低收入家庭世代经济自给自足和福祉。在获奖的第一年，CAP Tulsa将根据最新的研究扩大和强化EPP，并加强其课程。从2014年秋季开始，我们将启动一项实施研究，重点是模式的保真度以及双代计划的优势和挑战，以及考察EPP对父母和孩子结果的影响的有效性研究。研究结果将对双代办法如何影响儿童发展和家庭福祉产生影响，并将为如何将这种办法纳入学前计划编制提供指导。

Dual-generation approaches-targeting parents and children simultaneously- represent a promising and innovative antipoverty strategy for families. In collaboration with the Community Action Project of Tulsa, Oklahoma (CAP Tulsa), we propose to expand and strengthen a dual-generation education program and to conduct a randomized trial of its impact on parents and their children in CAP Tulsa's Head Start and Early Head Start (HS and EHS) programs. This dual-generation program, the Education Pathways Program (EPP), provides education, career coaching, and soft-skills training for parents while their children attend Head Start programs. The explicit goal is to promote the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of low-income families across generations. During Year 1 of the award, CAP Tulsa will expand and intensify EPP and strengthen its curriculum based upon the latest research. Starting in fall 2014, we will launch an implementation study, which will focus on the fidelity of the model and the strengths and challenges of the dual-generation program, as well as an effectiveness study examining the impact of EPP on parent and child outcomes. Findings will have implications for how dual-generation approaches influence child development and family well-being and will offer guidance on how to integrate this approach into Head Start programming.